ACTOR

Elsa Lanchester

1902 - 1986

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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elsa Lanchester is the 1,561st most popular actor (down from 1,461st in 2019), the 1,750th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,503rd in 2019) and the 217th most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Elsa Lanchester ranks 1,561 out of 13,578. Before her are Hibari Misora, Maggie Cheung, Daniel Brühl, Brad Davis, Adam Goldberg, and Barbara Bain. After her are Ross Bagdasarian, Jeanne Duval, Margarita Lozano, Farley Granger, Josh Brolin, and Myrna Loy.

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Among people born in 1902, Elsa Lanchester ranks 98. Before her are Darryl F. Zanuck, Nicolás Guillén, Jean Rey, Bruno Streckenbach, Samuel Goudsmit, and Hans Bellmer. After her are Jean Bruller, Langston Hughes, Leon Ames, Peregrino Anselmo, Santos Iriarte, and Albert Anastasia. Among people deceased in 1986, Elsa Lanchester ranks 82. Before her are J. Allen Hynek, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Jorge Alessandri, Ellison Onizuka, André Leroi-Gourhan, and Pierre Fournier. After her are Arthur Grumiaux, Robert Stevenson, Henri Toivonen, Christa McAuliffe, Bernard Malamud, and Christopher Isherwood.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elsa Lanchester ranks 1,750 out of 8,785. Before her are William Prout (1785), James Herriot (1916), Neil Tennant (1954), Colin Davis (1927), Paul Scholes (1974), and Ken Russell (1927). After her are Michael Ventris (1922), Robert Southey (1774), Elizabeth Hurley (1965), George Meredith (1828), P. F. Strawson (1919), and John Edensor Littlewood (1885).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Elsa Lanchester ranks 217. Before her are Una O'Connor (1880), Karen Gillan (1987), Rupert Everett (1959), Robert Hardy (1925), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), and Ben Cross (1947). After her are Elizabeth Hurley (1965), Donald Crisp (1882), Rosamund Pike (1979), Paul Scofield (1922), Robert Pattinson (1986), and Scott Adkins (1976).

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